Schrödinger of the Cat [Interstellar]

Chapter 14 Growing Up

A glimmer of sunlight leaked out, slightly illuminating the densely intertwined buildings in the fortress, and the morning of the fortress came.The birds woke up and chirped in the rest gaps between the canopy and the building.There were not many empty railcars driving on the track, and the slightly humid air was filled with the smell of soil and plants. Presumably, the fog and rain system turned on late at night had routinely irrigated the greenery in the fortress.

Ke Ke walked from the small building to the courtyard, and found a cleaning robot not far away that showed a malfunction in the system, sighed and walked over to debug it.Just when she removed the robot's power supply and was about to take it into the building to replace it with a new one, she inadvertently looked up and saw the scene above the cat climbing frame in the grove, and suddenly stayed there.

Vey rubbed his eyes and pushed the door out, seeing Ke Ke staring into the distance with a lonely face, so he followed her gaze.

A thick blanket was laid on the platform of the climbing frame at some point, and a huge black cat coiled itself in a circle on the blanket, as if it was sleeping soundly.In the gap circled by the black cat, a small milk cat, also black, can be vaguely discerned. Its belly is facing up, holding the tail of the big black cat, sleeping soundly.

This was supposed to be a heart-touching and warm scene, but Ke Ke didn't dare to watch it any longer.Recalling the chaos a few days ago, the picture in her memory has never been so clear. At that time, His Highness... when he saw the cub in distress, the fear and anxiety that shot out of his eyes was completely unlike the one she knew Your Highness.

Her highness has always been indifferent and calm, so lofty and perfect, she can't have any extravagant hope of being able to stand shoulder to shoulder with him.Coco has never had a deeper expectation before, and only wants to watch him from afar and do what he should do better.But the look His Highness gave the cub made her feel that he had become a real person, a person living in the same real world as them.

It was just the look His Highness gave the cub, which made her feel that he had become a real person, a person who lived in the same real world as them.

Ke Ke lowered her eyes, clenched the power block in her hand, and quickly turned back to the small building.Vey looked at His Highness sleeping on the tree, and at the back of Ke Ke who had almost fled. He brushed his hair in some distress, and chased Ke Ke into the small building.

"Do you like the major general?" Vey finally asked after hesitating for a long time.

do you like it?I really like it.Such a person, fortunate enough to be able to get along day and night, who would not like it?Even Amin, who has a firm goal and an extraordinary mind, actually likes His Highness very much, but he doesn't place his position so high, which can be felt.

"That's right, the major general is a great hero, and everyone likes him very much." Vey pouted and said to himself, "It's a pity that my ability is too poor, and I have used up several lifetimes of being a war envoy of His Highness." luck……"

Coco sighed: "I'm greedy."

Vey was taken aback, then realized, and said in a low voice: "Is there anyone who is greedy or not? Your thoughts are completely normal. But... Schrödinger was rescued by Major General himself, and now he is his adopted son. He's pretty normal. Are you mad at a cub?"

"I'm not angry, when did you see me angry?" Ke Ke insisted.

I see you are angry everywhere.Wei Yi murmured in his heart, but said: "Your Highness is the prince after all, and the only heir in the future is the adopted son of unknown origin. He will always marry a wife and have children. We are war envoys, we get along day and night, there is always a chance..."

Ke Ke shook her head and smiled wryly: "Even if you really want to get it from the War Envoy, you and I are not the ones who are qualified to be by His Highness's side. A Min...she...is from the direct line of Li Pei's family after all, if she can't get in, it's even more impossible for us Yes. The imperial concubine probably still wants to choose a concubine for His Highness from the direct lineage of the six major families."

"Brador belongs to the six major families." Vey was puzzled.

"Isn't your grandfather Archie's family also in the Sixth Great? My elders have been offshoots for several generations. In terms of status, they are not much different from you." Ke Ke was helpless.

Wei Yi sighed when he heard the words, and suddenly laughed again, and said: "Let's not talk about it, it's not something we can decide on our own, we just need to do our job well. Don't talk to the young ones anymore. The cub is angry, not ashamed."

"I'm not angry!" Coco glared.

Xue Yi didn't know the troubles of the two girls, he was very excited now because His Highness said that he heard what he "said" last night.But now, Xue Yi is striking while the iron is hot, wanting to fully master this skill.

"Really... I heard..." Xue Yi pressed his forehead against His Highness's, trying to express his doubts, "Cheat..."

Ares was helpless: "I really heard it, I didn't lie to you."

It really understood!Xue Yi stared at His Highness with wide eyes, so excited that he wanted to sing.

"It's a little intermittent, but it's okay, take your time." His Highness's mood is very gentle, "Remember this feeling, practice makes perfect."

"...Awakening...why...I..." Xue Yi was in a state of wanting to say anything, but he was not very proficient, so he held back a long list of words, and finally only a few words could be captured.

Ares guessed: "You ask what will happen after the spiritual power is awakened?"

Xue Yi nodded.

"After awakening, you will become a human." Ares's emotions were a little teasing and could not help but laugh.

Xue Yi rolled his eyes in his heart when he heard the words: Hell only believe you!become human?It's not the fantasy world of cultivating immortals!

Although he didn't believe in the saying that he would become a human, Xue Yi still worked hard to practice spiritual dialogue after tasting the sweetness.Fortunately, His Royal Highness seems to be very fond of home recently, and he can basically find it at any time. Xue Yi's achievements are also advancing by leaps and bounds, and soon he can "speak" continuous phrases and short sentences.

And finally one day, Xue Yi, who was obsessed with spiritual cultivation, saw his own appearance in the mirror.

The kitten's original fluffy fur was much smoother, and the newly grown brown hair was a bit messy mixed with the black background, but it was not ugly.Now his limbs are a bit slender, his body has not yet grown, so he looks very tall - it is Xue Yi's favorite kitten period.He leaned closer to the mirror and looked carefully, his nose and flesh pads were translucent pink, a little transparent in the sunlight, his eyes were still blue-gray, but much lighter than before.

"I've grown up!" Xue Yi rushed to His Highness's side, jumping up and down with joy, "Look, I've grown up! I haven't grown up for so long, but now I'm grown up!"

Ares was a little melancholy: "Yes, you have grown up."

Xue Yi was tired from dancing, and rolled on His Highness's fluffy hill-like body.Suddenly remembered something, he turned over, and said seriously: "I thought it was strange before, when I was on the spaceship. Can you talk to humans? In this way?"

"You can too." His Highness replied very ordinary.

"Really?" Xue Yi was surprised, "I can also talk to the major general?"

Ares was silent for a moment, and said, "Of course."

"Then I have to tell him that I want to change my name!" Xue Yi was indignant, "It's so strange that he actually named me Schrödinger. I don't know when he will come back today."

Ares looked at the unaware cub in front of him, and felt that his teasing on the spur of the moment seemed a bit too much, but... "The name cannot be changed." He said calmly, "There are special regulations during wartime. Many items cannot be changed.”

Xue Yi was a little depressed when he heard the words, but quickly regained his optimism: "It's okay, the name is just a code name, I have to ask him to give me a nice nickname again, the one given by the imperial concubine is really unacceptable to me..."

"What nickname do you want?" Ares asked curiously.

"I haven't thought about it yet." Xue Yi shook his head and said, "Your name is Your Highness, then I will find someone similar."

Ares laughed inwardly. The kid hadn't realized that what he said about turning into a human was true. Although he was a bit of a deliberate disguise, but there were so many flaws, why didn't the kid notice any of it?To this day, he still thought His Highness was just a cat.

……

Before dinner, Xue Yi hugged Ke Ke's ankle in the kitchen, bringing out the cuteness of the kitten to the extreme: "I want fried cod for dinner—"

Ke Ke was so startled that she almost didn't hold the knife in her hand. When she realized what happened, her mood suddenly became complicated.

Originally, she liked the cubs very much, so much that when she just woke up, she loved to hug her younger siblings and refused to let go.But the identity of the cub in front of him is completely different, it is His Highness' adopted son.However, this adopted son who has no blood relationship with His Highness seems to have brought him many puzzling changes, and can even affect His Highness's many incredible emotions.

Now, this cub, which is said to be only three years old, has learned to communicate spiritually, and can express its wishes so clearly, Coco seems to have seen the powerful aura slowly emerging from it.

"I want to eat fried cod!" Xue Yi persisted.

Looking at the excited, unconscious cub, Ke Ke felt relieved and laughed.What is she arguing with a cub who doesn't know anything?

She turned back and put the prepared beef back into the freezer, and picked out another piece of good cod.Then she squatted down, stretched out her fingers covered with ice and tapped the tip of the cub's nose, and said with a smile, "Little greedy cat! You know what you want to eat just after being enlightened, be careful to grow into a big fat man!"

"I won't get fat! I'm growing now, so I must eat well." Xue Yi tried his best to condense his energy into longer sentences, "I like to put lemon juice when frying cod..."

Ke Ke refused: "I decided to use black pepper, and next time I will make fried fish with lemon juice."

In the kitchen, one person and one cat discussed the content of dinner sentence by sentence.

Ares, who had just returned to the room and changed his clothes, used his mental power to perceive slightly, and found the cub who ran to the kitchen and stalked Ke Ke.Standing outside the kitchen door, he felt inexplicably uncomfortable when he heard Ke Ke's smiling voice deliberately softened because of the conversation with the cub.He thought he would be the first human being to "hear" the cub "speak", but he didn't expect that the child couldn't even wait for the time to change his clothes.

The bracelet on his wrist vibrated, and Ares raised his hand to open it, while striding towards the study.

"The military has issued an order that your recuperation will be terminated. They hope that you will return to the orbit of Kerr within a week." In the video message, the prince Wen Sen looked solemn, "The concubine mother said that your injury has been resolved, but I still think you need more time to recuperate. Reliable information shows that the ghosts have been dormant recently, and there is no major action, but it is estimated that there will be stragglers to assassinate you. I promoted a few recruit teams in the relatively safe fortress along the way, Take a detour to pick it up, and try to delay the recuperation time. The concubine also said that you need to take the cub to the mainland of Kerr planet. On the surface, she is asking you to check the military situation and find a school for the cub by the way. , but I guess it’s just to delay you. In short, be careful.”

Ares turned off the message and tapped his finger on the desktop.The last time I secretly went to Kerr planet with my identity hidden, where I saw a drone chasing and killing cubs. Amin has been following up and investigating during this time, but the result seems to be nothing.

Now the concubine mother also knows what he saw at the time, and she must have known the danger there when she sent him to Kerr, and she emphasized that letting him bring the cub was just in case, after all, his mental power would be weaker when he was with the cub. Much calmer.

But Ares has a headache, and he doesn't want the cub to face any danger to his life...but he knows that the cub must grow up, on the one hand because of the cub's extraordinary background, and on the other hand because he has not been able to fully develop himself in a high-level form so far. How can you be sure that you can protect the cub for the rest of your life if you master your own spiritual power?

It's really useless, Ares was filled with frustration, and felt powerless for the first time in his life.

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Update log: The plot of the previous chapters has been changed and slightly adjusted.